Agent-based models as a complement to economic theory: A durable goods example

Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 729-734

  Tassier, Troy ^a   Everson, Mark P ^b   Ostrowski, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECONOMICS; PURCHASING;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGGREGATE MARKET; DURABLE GOODS; ECONOMIC APPROACH; ECONOMIC THEORIES; MODEL YIELDS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 0442313541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2002.1007016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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